I am not a playwright. A playwright would take "Antigone" and hit it a few clouts and knock it out of shape and restructure it. My versioning was strictly verbal.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

All I know is a door into the dark

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

Children and journalists need what they don't need actually.

Repent when you fail, and immediately seek God’s forgiveness and restoration. Sin breaks our fellowship with God.

God is able to do more than you ever imagine!Keep trusting God. Your miracle will surely come true.

It's always difficult to say goodbye, especially when one has spent a long time - literally years, in the case of a series - inside a character or two, suffering and celebrating with them.

I've never been more moved by a voice than I have been by Roy Orbison. I loved him personally, and I loved his voice. I think of him often and frequently listen to his songs.

Irrespective of whether you suspect you are able to do a factor or not, that you are right

I love fashion. Over the past year I've got heavily into it.

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?

In peace, continue your art; in war, continue your art; in freedom, continue your art; in captivity, continue your art!